It takes the average reader and 28 minutes to read Babies by Ann Packer
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A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection Virginia, a copywriter at an ad agency, looks around her office one day and realizes that everyone—well, nearly everyone—is pregnant. Can she be happy for them? “Babies,” included in the prestigious O. Henry anthology series in 1992, is a sharply funny and perfectly observed story of pregnancy, city living, the semantic contradiction of “creative directors,” and finding one’s place in the world. A selection from Ann Packer’s luminous first collection Mendocino and Other Stories. An eBook short.
Babies by Ann Packer is 28 pages long, and a total of 7,224 words.
This makes it 9% the length of the average book. It also has 9% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes and 39 minutes to read Babies aloud.
Babies is suitable for students ages 8 and up.
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